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VN & St Augustine (response to HH)
----- Original Message -----
From: Carolyn Kunin
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 6:53 AM
Subject: VN & St Augustine (response to HH)
Dear HH,
Nabokov certainly had to know some Latin in order to pursue his interests in lepidopterology and certainly seems to have read St Augustine (there are several references to the Confessions in Pale Fire and possibly the Solliloquies and I don't think VN would make an allusion to something he had not read). There is also a Latin phrase in Pale Fire "C.X.K. teste J.S.B" (if memory serves, I can't locate it just now) which I would appreciate help with translating. My own Latin is very primitive. Does it mean that C.X.K. testifies for/against J.S.B.? testifies in his place? My guess is that it's meaning must be ambiguous since the initials have no case.
CK
----- Original Message -----
From: Carolyn Kunin
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 6:53 AM
Subject: VN & St Augustine (response to HH)
Dear HH,
Nabokov certainly had to know some Latin in order to pursue his interests in lepidopterology and certainly seems to have read St Augustine (there are several references to the Confessions in Pale Fire and possibly the Solliloquies and I don't think VN would make an allusion to something he had not read). There is also a Latin phrase in Pale Fire "C.X.K. teste J.S.B" (if memory serves, I can't locate it just now) which I would appreciate help with translating. My own Latin is very primitive. Does it mean that C.X.K. testifies for/against J.S.B.? testifies in his place? My guess is that it's meaning must be ambiguous since the initials have no case.
CK